MC&A Software Assistance to Ukraine

AIMAS (Automated Inventory/Material Accounting System) is a PC-based application that is being developed as part the U. S. assistance program to Ukraine in Nuclear Material Protection, Control, and Accounting (MPC&A). The AIMAS software prototype was designed to provide a starting point for joint U. S. / Ukraine system development. Computer systems with AIMAS prototypes have been installed at Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research (KINR), South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (SUNPP), Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (KIPT), Sevastopol Institute of Nuclear Energy & Industry (SINEI) and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety (MEPNS). AIMAS is being developed using Microsoft Access 2.0, a windows-based relational database management system (RDBMS) and application development environment. It has been designed to be highly flexible and configurable, and to support a wide range of computing infrastructure needs and facility requirements. AIMAS functions include basic physical inventory tracking, transaction histories, reporting, and system administration functions (system configuration and security). Security measures include multilevel password access controls, all transactions logged with the user ID, and system administration controls. Interfaces to external modules are being designed to provide nuclear fuel burn-up adjustment and barcode scanning capabilities for physical inventory taking.